How This Reality Star Views Her Anxiety as ‘An Invitation for Faith’

Published: February 19, 2026

By Movieguide® Staff

Sadie Robertson Huff and author Megan Fate Marshman weighed in on the relationship between faith and anxiety.

“I’m someone that has dealt with anxiety for so long…I’m like, ‘God, take the fear out of my heart,’” Huff said during a recent episode of her podcast.

She referenced 2 Corinthians, where Paul wrote about having a thorn in his side that he came to view as something that kept him dependent on God. Huff referred to her anxiety as her own thorn, calling it “an invitation for grace” and “an invitation for faith.”

“Maybe that’s there to keep me dependent on God and His grace and His strength in my life,” she finished.

Marshman agreed, sharing her own opinion on the topic: “You can’t be anxious and grateful at the same time.”

She explained that feelings of insecurity are actually “a gift,” as it can “take us to our actual security…back to who you are, because in Christ, you are secure.”

“Our weakness can bring us somewhere else. Not to ourselves,” Marshman continued. “Take it to God….wherever your heart is…[bring] it to God in honest, simple prayers.”

Huff often talks about her struggles with anxiety. In a 2023 episode of her “WHOA THAT’S GOOD podcast, she shared how she’s working to combat feelings of anxiety in her daughter Honey.

“She’s 2 years old, but she already gets anxious. And her two Bible verses that she knows now are ‘Fear not, for I’m with you,’” she shared. “The other day [Honey] started getting scared in her room, and I heard her say, ‘Fear not, for I am with you.’ And she said, ‘There’s no monsters.’ And it was so sweet….I’m already giving her those tools…Even now, when she says that, it shifts her mind.”

Marshman has also previously discussed anxiety; in 2024, she published Relaxed: Walking with the One Who Is Not Worried About a Thing.

“We often try to do a lot for God — without him,” a synopsis of the book reads. “‘Relaxed’ is a call to let go of spiritual performance, reject our cultural tendency to live under pressure, and find freedom to walk with God and toward God, one gentle step at a time.”

Huff and Marshman’s conversation is a reminder that our feelings of insecurity and anxiety can be a way to draw us closer to God.

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